Vienna Fireworks Show - 7/2/2025 If you are planning to watch the annual Vienna VA fireworks show on July 2nd, 2025, then you should remember that they will be set off around 9:30 at Yeonas Park. There is limited seating at Yeonas Park (Vienna Little League Park) in the stands. Bring chairs or blankets, but no chairs allowed on the Continue Reading
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Here’s my home seller checklist… imagine you’re Getting Ready to Sell
Hoping for top dollar when you sell your home in Vienna, VA? Here's the first home seller checklist I give designed to help anyone get started. It's work, but delivers a worthy ROI! In 2025, my main marketing strategy will be helping each client's home look its best online with careful planning, staging, and professional photography. Continue Reading
Vienna VA Real Estate Stats | 2025
Vienna Market - Spring 2025 I always hear questions about pricing and market activity in Vienna, and I like to talk about what is happening today. Specifically: active inventory, days on market, buyer activity, number of offers, and other important factors that monthly "stats" don't always make obvious. And, with today's shifting market with Continue Reading
Vienna Halloween Parade 2024
Maple Avenue will be closed to traffic around 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 The 78th Annual Vienna Virginia Halloween Parade! Theme: Party like it's 1999! This parade is full of Marching Bands, Fire Engines, Dancers, Floats and kids... and more kids. One friend who recently moved back to London always commented how "you Continue Reading
Want to know about Flight Paths?
I updated this article to include a new 2024 Dulles Disclosure One of the benefits of living in Northern Virginia is that you can get a flight almost anywhere in the world at one of the local airports. Each of these "local airports" qualifies to be in the top tier of U.S. airports for passenger traffic and daily flights. When a real estate Continue Reading
A required termite inspection in your sales contract?
This is a previous article that I have Updated for 2024 Yes, a termite inspection clause is part of the standard Northern Virginia real estate sales contract. Last week, I received a question via email from an upset seller who had just been told that he was being required to have his home treated for live termites. He wanted to know if this Continue Reading
Town of Vienna, Virginia
The Freeman House on Church Street The historic Freeman House is located on Church Street in Vienna. It is really the unofficial center of town and its active lifestyle, as on one side is the Vienna Town Green, a weekend farmers market, the W&OD Bike Trail (you can walk or run too), an organic bakery, Bazin's on Church Restaurant, Clarity, Continue Reading
Where your house meets home buyers
Home sellers are often caught off guard when I explain that today's home buyers will decide on their house before ever stepping foot in it. The days of spending hours driving around looking at seven, eight, or nine houses on a sunny Saturday are over. Yes, meeting at 9:00 a.m. to review the available listings and map out a route are quaint tales Continue Reading
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